Peter Galli

Microsoft is ratcheting up its software-plus-services strategy with a new offering known as Office Live Workspace that is due later this year and that will let customers access, share and collaborate on documents online. But there is a catch: Users will not to able to edit the documents they are viewing through a browser unless […]

Microsofts OEM and retail partners will offer Windows XP for an additional five months—until June 30, 2008—the software maker has decided after receiving complaints that customers are not ready to cut off and switch to Vista. OEMs have been telling Microsoft that a small set of customers need to run Windows XP for longer than […]

Microsofts Live Search Gets a Major Overhaul MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Microsoft is releasing a major update to its Live Search offering that will improve its core search technology and bring advances in vertical search areas, changes the company believes now make its search relevance at least as good as that of Googles and better than Yahoos. […]

Microsoft will make the first release candidate for Windows Server 2008 and the first beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available within the next 24 hours, the software maker said Sept. 24. A Community Technology Preview of Windows Server virtualization, code-named Viridian, will also be released for customer and partner download and testing. So […]

LAS VEGAS—Open source is truly the best way to unlock the value of information technology, Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, said at the annual Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 20. “Open source can give you a common operating platform for real, and if you use Linux as a leveler, the individual […]

LAS VEGAS – Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result in cheaper software and new business models. Open-source products accounted for a 13 percent share of the $92.7 billion software market in 2006, but should account for 27 percent of the market in […]

LAS VEGAS—The Microsoft Permissive License, one of two licenses the software maker submitted to the Open Source Initiative for approval as open-source licenses in August, is unlikely to be approved in its current form. There have been two principle objections to the license from the open-source community, Michael Tiemann, the president of OSI, told eWEEK […]

Gartner : No New Unix Apps Likely After 2009″> LAS VEGAS—There are unlikely to be any new applications developed solely for Unix after 2009, George Weiss, a Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, told attendees at Gartners annual Open Source Summit here Sept. 20. “I expect that, around 2009, we will have seen the last […]

LAS VEGAS—At least 80 percent of all commercial software products will include elements of open-source code by 2010, according to Mark Driver, vice president of research at Gartner. In his opening keynote at the third annual Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 19, titled “The Gartner Open Source Scenario for 2007: The risks and rewards […]

Microsoft is making the third service pack for Office 2003 available for free download Sept. 18, which the company says strengthens the products defenses against malicious software. “While SP3 will be available as a free download on Sept. 18, customers will also begin to get notified of its availability via Microsofts AutoUpdate over the next […]